Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Jan. 31 --- COUILLARD SAYS QUEBEC HAS ‘DEMONS’ BUT IS AN OPEN SOCIETY: Quebec has its “demons” in terms of attitudes toward Muslims, ...

HALIFAX - Unfair labour complaints have been withdrawn in the year-long strike at the Halifax Chronicle Herald, paving the way for the resumption of negotiations next week. In a news release Tuesday, ...

So-called “lone wolf” attackers are unlikely to face terror charges under Canadian law, a legal expert said Tuesday as authorities continued to investigate a deadly mass shooting at a Queb...

OTTAWA - The commander of the military health unit responsible for mentally and physically injured soldiers is retiring, less than six months after taking over the much-maligned unit and promising to ...

VANCOUVER - A decision by the government of British Columbia to approve the Trans Mountain pipeline is “tainted” because of a conflict of interest that saw the premier and her political pa...

GRAND FALLS, N.B. - A trio of deer has ransacked a convenience store at a New Brunswick gas station, pushing snacks off the shelves and banging against the glass doors before scampering away. A Facebo...

TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau branded the Quebec mosque massacre as a terrorist attack, although the accused in the rampage is only facing murder charges. Here are some recent high-profile c...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister said Tuesday he chose his words poorly when he said tensions around night hunting are leading to a “race war” but he stopped short of apologizin...

TORONTO - When Marcia Powers-Dunlop heard about the deadly attack on a mosque in Quebec City, she knew she’d have to send out a note to the support workers she oversees in the Toronto District S...

OTTAWA - Jihadi-inspired extremism has dominated discussion of terrorism in Canada in recent years. But the shootings at a Quebec City Islamic centre may well represent the flip-side of that coin: the...